I'm not a big fan of Windows myself and I am also forced to use it because of the same reasons you are. However your first paragraph describes the Apple OSes (Mac OS, iOS). Microsoft seems to try to mimic that graphic crap extremely since Windows 8. Windows 10 is crap too, I don't like it, and if I had the choice (to still do it in an easy way) I would downgrade to Windows 7.
Performance-wise, I'm usually leaving my PC running for up to a month before I restart it and well, sometimes it then runs updates, which are usually done in a few minutes (if not faster). There was one major update late last year that took loooong time, probably more than 30 minutes and admittedly that was annoying.
But Windows never crashed on me and I run tons of crap on it, i.e: IBM Domino Server, IBM Notes with Admin and Designer, Oracle VM Virtualbox with one instance of Ubuntu Server (Web development), FTP Client, 5 different Browsers at the same time, Office and Corel all open for days and everything works fine for weeks. I have 2 different Clients for VC and that sometimes confuses my 2 webcams and then and only then I need to restart.
Give Windows some credit ;-)